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Films that Work : Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media.
Title:
Films that Work : Industrial Film and the Productivity of Media.
Author:
Hediger, Vinzenz.
ISBN:
9789048502264
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (496 pages)
Series:
Film Culture in Transition
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- I Navigating the Archive -- Archives and Archaeologies -- Record, Rhetoric, Rationalization -- Vernacular Archiving -- II Visuality and Efficiency -- Early Industrial Moving Pictures in Germany -- Layers of Cheese -- Images of Efficiency -- "What Hollywood Is to America, the Corporate Film Is to Switzerland" -- Poussières -- Thermodynamic Kitsch -- III Films and Factories -- Touring as a Cultural Technique -- Corporate Films of IndustrialWork -- Filming Work on Behalf of the Automobile Firm -- Eccentricity, Education and the Evolution of Corporate Speech -- Centron, an Industrial/Educational Film Studio, 1947-1981 -- Films from Beyond the Well -- IV See, Learn, Control -- The Personnel Is Political -- Behaviorism, Animation, and Effective Cinema -- Technologies of Organizational Learning -- The Central Film Library of Vocational Education -- "Reality Is There, but It's Manipulated" -- V Urbanity, Industry, Film -- Modernism, Industry, Film -- A Modern Medium for a Modern Message -- Harbor, Architecture, Film -- Industrial Films -- The Desiderata of Business-Film Research1 -- Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Film Titles -- Index of Subjects.
Abstract:
First full-length book, anthology, and annotated bibliography to explore the industrial film and its remarkable history.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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